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tsr cca WAILASJ heSun WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 8f 1 935 1 1 3 LLOYD DYKK KEEPS CABBIES' WfeMlL HOWS FOR 4 WHFF OF I WHO: and wisdom of ffous1 wordy woEfiQffl Voice Over, (at the Contemporary Art Gallery and Convertible Showroom through Sept. 28), guest curator Helga Pakasaar has I brought together four feminist Vancouver artists who make extensive use of words in their work. Whatever the 2L Voice Over catalogue may have to say about it and after trudging through both Pakasaar's essay and Merike Talve's "Absense of Body Presence of Voice" several times I'm still not entirely clear what that might be Voice Over lets us know that women artists are still angry. I Art Eve Johnson BY 11 p.m. on Tuesday the bingo game in the Finnish community hall on Main Street had ended.

They were putting their coats and calling it a night. Another set of people, just arriving, lined up on the stairs that lead to the Second floor the Main Dance Place where Pink Ink Productions was performing Leonard Melfi's Taxi Tales. Cabbies' hours for cabbies' tales. rNew York's Leonard Melfi was in 'early on the great wave of the off-off-JJroadway scene in the early '60s, the 'Joy wonder of the Cafe La Mama, Loft Workshop and Circle-in-the-' Square. This production, 90 minutes long, offers three of his five one-acts on the subject of cab drivers in New York.

They're like a hot stale blast on the sidewalk from a Manhattan subway grating. They're tone pictures, redolent of sleepless nights, desperation and the loneliness at the heart of a city where everything and somehow nothing is available. The clever set (by Sandhano, the program says) is half a front seat, a steering wheel and a springy back seat. There are three different drivers in the series, two men and a woman. All are preyed upon from the back Tiy glamorous, merrily depraved people, most of them into some kind of guiltless sexual perversity.

One driver drops three swells off after having convinced them he's the happiest man in the world. Then he takes some drugs and hallucinates about falling from the top of the World -Trade Centre. They're all that simple, more or iM "5 iicfcri hi jf FZ Cvt-f tern. Amgi 4 Ingrid Koenig's portraits of "cultural workers," including herself as "self-appointed historian," reveal conscious, wary, uncompromising Women. Koenig's work is technically deft, delightful in its sureness.

Under the portraits and sometimes between them is a strident commentary, its tone best exemplified by the statement: "In every phase of our daily life we are engaged in warfare." Kati Campbell works with photography in a slick, advertising-derived style. Corpus: desperate mutations, is a three backlit negatives framed in black. In each photograph, a shadowy pair of lips tries to speak through a layer of words made unintelligible by severe cropping at each side. Her Possession, possessed, also a backlit, multi-photograph work, frames a photograph of Campbell, blindfolded, with photographs of her house, the doors and windows covered in angry signs addressed to a peeping Tom. Amy Jones' Dialogue in Landscape is not so much angry as confused.

Three groups of full-' sized white figures are wrapped in whitewashed fabric and positioned under a set of paper arches hung from the back wall of the gallery. Each group is a mother and child: an infant held in the mother's arms, an older child riding the mother's hip, and mother and toddler standing side-by-side. PORTRAIT, 1985, of Meredith Bell, feminist artist, graphite and carbon by Ingrid Koenig The figures are striking because of their size and because their blank wrapped faces give them a mysterious quality. The Dialogue gets a bit too mysterious at times, especially those moments when the soundtrack two women talking about the psychological gains and pains of motherhood is muffled and hard to understand. Heroics, Sara Diamond's video installation at Convertible Showroom, takes the cultural stereotype of heroism as its subject.

Is heroism really the demonstration of aggressive physical strength that we watch on television? Diamond asked women to tell her incidents from their lives in which they believed they had acted heroically. The stories, roughly three hours of videotape, are arranged under headings: Creativity; Survival, To Triumph Over Misfortune; and A Shining Example. As message art, Heroics is the most successful work in Voice Over. Instead of Koenig and Campbell's angry pronouncements, or Jones's technically flawed and confusing state- ment, Diamond enlists the power of the first-person narrative. And while we wait to see how it all turned out, the message a distinctly less macho idea of heroism quietly takes shape in our minds.

less. It's the wired, strung-out colloquial talk often very funny and the jazzx sit of improvisatipjUhat, make them so catchy. -r; STEVE BOSCH DRIVEN TO DISTRACTION: Sunder Kushad as cabbie with swells played by Karen Cantelon (left), Robert Wilson and Lynn Johnson They appear to have been written specifically for New Yorkers and not out of self-celebration. A lot of work went into this production, directed by (believe this or not) Swami Shunyam Sandhano. The act- ing is good enough to make you forget the murderous hour: Lynn Johnson, v.

Robert Wilson, Sunder Kushad, Ni-cola Perrin and Karen Cantelon. 3 OTF SAM'S FATHER HAD THE BEST TOY A SON COULD EVER HIS NEW MOTELI mm I BACK TO THE FUTURE: 7:15, 9:30. Sat.Sun. 2:15, 7:15, 9:30, WHILE AT THE ROYAL CENTRE, VISIT OUR IN-THCATRE CAFE FEATURING CAPUCCINO AND ESPRESSO. EMERALD FOREST: 2:1 5, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 14 YEARS Warning: Some violence, nudity, occasional suggestive scenes.

B.C. Director 14 YEARS Warning: Some very ooaras language, occasional nudity and auggaa Svescanee. B.C. Director Now showing at these theatres, COQUITLAM, DOLPHIN, HILLCREST DRIVE Jlfiilii In- JM. DcniBunrTUEiniuAncin ENDSTHURS.

Check THEATRE GUIDE for showtlmes. Wsmino Frwuent aorv violence. B.C. Dliactor fW ilffi 87:00,9:00. SatSun.

1O0.7KX), 9.00. MY BEST FRIENDS GIRL: 1 30. 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9 30 Warning: Occasional nudity and suggestive (E55SJ scenes, B.C. Director English Subtitles. GHOSTBUSTERS: 1 :40, 3:0, 5:40, 7:40, Warning: May frighten young children, occasional FEAR CITY: 7:15, 9:15.

SatTSun. 1:15,7:15, 915- F.N08THUBS. 14 YEARS Warning: Sorrw vary coara EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT AT PARK DAILY 1 $0, 3:15, 5 7:45, 10K coarse ano suggestive nguj. p.w. w- Tuemil rAll.4-AR Z-A 7'4fi 9:45.

Enollsh Subfroes. ENDS THURS. REAL GENIUS: 7:35, 9:35. Sat.Sun. 1 :00, 3:00.

455,7:35.9:35. ENDSTHURS. ncn acuiiis 31S 5:15.7:15.9:15. former in London. She married at 16 a wealthy executive who drank and beat her.

She studied at the Royal Academy of Dance, bluffing her way through to the finals when "they found out I didn't know how to dance." She was transferred to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, "but I wanted to sing." This is the cue for Memory, from Cats. Maunsell mimes the feline business while the tape plays. Unfortunately, this hokey number comes close to the end of the show an unfortunate thing to remember her by. Because there are other times that Maunsell's actressy extroversion (this is very much a show for theatre people, darlings) gets to you. Such as her parody of stock bit-parts in the theatre, or her impression of a classical queen, lugging the albatross of her costume around the stage with a regal expression fixed on her face and murder in her heart.

WEDNESDAY: Grunt Gallery, 209 E. 6th: 2 p.m., The Ape; 6:45, Transparent Mate; 8 p.m., Ripping up the Veil; 10 p.m., Ebbing of Curiosity. Main Dance Place, 2214 Main: 11 p.m., Taxi Tales. Western Front, 303 E. 8th: 7:30 p.m., The Broad in Me; 10 p.m., The End of Art.

Mount Pleasant Neighborhood House: 8 p.m.. Twilight Rambler; 10 p.m., The Gates of Hell. Heritage Hall, 3102 Main: 12:30 p.m., Night with Guests; 2 p.m., Grab BagSmall Change; 8 p.m., Sitting on a Suitcase; 10 p.m., Broken-Hearted Losers; Midnight, Night with Guests. Vancouver Little Theatre (rear of Heritage Hall), 7:30 p.m., Have You Ever Been to Disneyland? ADman; 9 p.m., Soul Survivor; 11 p.m., Theatresports. I language.

nrifDsfuttcj B.C. Director PARADISE MOTEL: 730, 9:40. Sat.Sun. 1 30. 3:15, SIX), 730, 9:40.

ENDSTHURS. Warning: Frlquam gory violence, aome nudHy. B.C. Olracor Now showing at these theatres, BROADWAY, DOLPHIN, SCOTT 72 Check THEATRE GUIDE for showtime. WpqfBQMminFfrqmMBrKmmvMsimam, MY NEW PARTNER: 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20.

COMEDY, AND REAL FUN" Salam Alaton. TEEN WOLF: 7:1 5, 9:25. SatSun. 1 :1 5, 3:1 0, 5:05,7:15.9:25. -i Part vanity showcase, part Sitting on a Suitcase is a one- woman show featuring Vancouver ac- tress Micki Maunsell.

In collabora-'- tion with Peter Eliot Weiss she also wrote it, and it was seen Tuesday night at Heritage Hall. From a previous interview, we know that the material Maunsell covers in the 45 minute show is true to life, right from the early childhood in British colonial India. "That child is still in me, capable of murder," Maunsell says in that raspy little voice of hers, and we suppose she should know. 7wl- ft was a rootless and unsatisfying yearly existence, from the sound of it "always arriving" and we hear hlX the train on the soundtrack. she was handed over to an Indian nanny "so our parents' social life could be uninterrupted." There was the little patch of England that was her mother's desert garden, which eight sweating servants watered by hand from dawn to dusk while her -mother sat in chiffons, pale and lan- There was the prep school for boys and their sisters who lived abroad, and the piano teacher who looked like a sausage on high, high heels and taught her Lavender Blue, to this day the only song Maunsell claims she can .1 play.

Her passage from India came early and at five she became a child per- Warning: some violence, nuaiiy, suggesuvs scenes and very coarse language. B.C. Director English Subtitles. TORONTO GLOBE Kevin Thomas LOS ANGELES TIMES BACK TO THE FUTURE: CCi.2L"ii 7:00,9:15. SatSun.

200,4:15, 7:00,9:15. 4 MAIL CT nun'S FIRE: 1 30 3 30. 5:30. 7:30. 9:30.

Warning Occasional very coarse language, u.i, sweanrra and suggestive scenes. B.C. Director E.T.: 2:15, 4:30. 7:00. Warning: Occasional coarse language.

(Siiui B.C. Director i I ENDSTHURS. EEN WOLF: 2:00, 3:50, 5:45, 7:50.9:45. SILVERADO: One Show Nightly: dlifNIUS 1 1 (RSnret) RIGHT NIGHT: 2:30,5:00, 7:15,9:20 EITOa A-vana- Wamlna: ome aorv violence, THUHS. Warning: Occasional suggmtM acanaa.

BP. Dlraclor AMADEUS: 2:00, 5:00, 8:00. jiooimsiintoi Warning: Occasional coarse language. Director If SD 'HtOUW COlUMtl tND HI KuJi) occasional very coarse language, suooesttve scene B.C. Director EXCLUSIVE ENGAGEMENT AT DUNBAR NIGHTLY 730, 930 SAT-SUN MAT 2:00 VOLUNTEERS: 1:15.

3:16. 5:15. 7:15 9:15. Now snowing at these ttwatres. 'ROYAL CENTRE, COQUtTLAM, SCOTT 72 El r.hark THFATRE GUIDE for showtime.

fS MA TEEN WOLF: 7:15, 9:30, Sat.Sun. 1 :15, 3:15, PARADISE MOTEL 5:15, 7:15,9:30. 7:15. 9:15. Sat.

1 :15, 7:15, sun. ia. ENDSTHURS. BACK TO THE FUTURE: 7:00, 9:15. Sat.Sun.

2:00, 4:20, 7O0, BFEAR CITY: 7:30, 9:30. Sat. 1 DO, 7:30. 9:30. psun.

1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:30, 930. FEAR CITY: 7:45, 9:45. Sun. 1 45, 3 45. 5:45,7:45.9:45.

ENDS THURS. REAL GENIUS: 7:30, 9:40. Sat. Sun. 1 30, 3:30, 5.30,7:30,9:40.

ENDS THURS. lmiHIMMmanKyii BMI 1W A UNIVERSAL Picture l' i Warning: Soma awearing: B.C. Director Now showing at these theatres. if i .11 1 i i aimnwm ii iWFfweryj i BULLSHOT: 730, 930. Sat.Sun.

2 00 7:30. 30 ENDS THURS ODEON, 'SCOTT 72, COQUITLAM, 'OAKRIDGE, ne'i If i titiiiii ii1 i BBBiaiWfW VABsrnr R4ric TO THE FUTURE: Nnfrtlv: 7:00. 9:15. Check THEATRr! GUIDE for sncwtimes. nouiTYCTEPto SatJSun.

200.7:00, 9:15. MM RAMBO: 7:30, 9:20. Sat.Sun. 2:00, 7:30, 9:20 3 hi. I PARADISE MOTEL: 7:15, 900.

Sat Sun. 2:15. 17:15,900. ENDSTHURS. "One of the year's funniest." DwM Amen.

rVewnwetc PARADISE MOTEL: 2:15. 4O0, 5:45. 7:45, 9 45. frUllnQ COLUMBIA PICTURES Warning: May tnoMan young dran. occasion, al coaraa and suopMdve languaoa.

B.C. Diraow Now showing at these theatres. ROYAL CENTRE. WEST VAN Check THEATRE GUIDE for showtlmes. BACK TO THE FUTURE: 200,4:20, 7:15,9:45.

SILVERADO: 9:15. 1:30, 6:45,9:15. LTIIyyi I SILVERADO: 1 :45, 4:10, 7O0, 9:30. ST. ELMO'S FIRE: 7O0, 9O0.

SalSun. 1 :00, 7:00.9:00. lXOUO COlUAAliA tCtUlt i CANAL- Warning: Soma very coaraa and augoeaM languags. occasional nudity. B.C.

Diractor Now showing al these theatres. ROYAL CENTRE, WESTMINSTER MALL Wamlna Occasional very coarse TEEN WOLF: 1:30. 3:15, 5O0. 7:10, 9:15. Director swesnna and suggestive scenes.

B.C "Aripwarin: rooiiii'tootin'advpnture yarn VOLUNTEERS: 7:20, 9:30. SatJSun. 1:15, 7:20. 9 30. Check THEATRE GUIDE tor shrjwlimes.

Jrrfr" MUAIIVS lv BACK TO THE FUTURE: 2.00, 4:20, 7O0, 9:15. END9 THURS. fjrrMeViiu A REAL laWetitUN -IOKOMOSIAR I 'i knhSaftn KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN: Daily: 1 .00, 3:15,5:30 7:45,10:00. TEEN WOLF: 730, 9:30. Sat.

1 30, 7:30 9:30. Sun. 1 :30. 3:30. 5:30, 7:30, 9:30.

ENDS THURS. ST. ELMO'S FIRE: 9:15. Sat. 1 15,7:15, 9:15 Sun.

1 :1 5. 3:15, 5:15. 7:15, 9:15. (3fi Warning: Occasionsl very coarse language, swesnng and suggestive scenes. B.C Director fCE Silveradri Warning.

Soma vlolenoa.BC. Director (Mxrwrj trt KnnK on kellooos salada COU GHOSTBUSTERS: 7:00, 9:00. Sat. 1 :00, 7:00. 9:00.

Sun. 1:00,3:00,5:00,7:00,9:00. Warning: May frighten young children, occasional coarse and suggestive language. B.C. Director Ai.

(matubQ vTtMrri mtm. PONS ACCEPTED FOR 70MM PRESENTATIONS OPEN ONLY FRIDAY TO MONDAVI STARTING FRIDAY "AMERICAN NINJA" plus "MISSING IN ACTION II" Now ahowina at triesa theairos I WESTMINSTER 'OAKRIDGE. 'Wl I UAI I nOVAl CENTRE Wamirts: Occasional vary coarsa htnguaga, nudity ittd juggesttv scvnea. B.C. Director Now showing hese theatres.

COBOWET, WEbT VAN, OAKRIPQE, SCOTT 72, COQUITLAM Crwck THEATPfc OUIDE (or showtimes. CfecTlUWaUlbEkrshow. ,1 fjii ift iifiMii in rUMff i MM KEN OAKES Biaijii(uai ewge m4m ffleilfll-lf I lefflillfirfiri iTltri MICKI MAUNSELL in one-woman show: actressy extroversion tVAILABU.